Pan Fried Basa with a creamy Courgette and Chorizo Sauce
Over the years after many trials and tribulations I have become far more confident with cooking fish successfully, and this time I won the jackpot! I loved everything about this…
Ham Hock, Mustard & Macaroni Cheese Stuffed Peppers
Making Macaroni cheese is a regular meal in our house, its easy, delicious and is that all round comfort food I remember fondly growing up – don’t tell mum but…
Cauliflower Cheese and Gammon Soup
Now if I recall correctly, I once saw a recipe at some point for Cauliflower cheese soup and it slipped to the dark recesses of my mind as one of…
Banana Caramel Loaf Cake
A few weeks back, on holiday and staying with lovely family I’d had a rather lovely day out at River Cottage and despite being slightly tired from the driving, I…
Creamy Leek and Chorizo Jacket potatoes
We recently returned from holiday and had only been very briefly been shopping, which involved mostly throwing random ingredients in a tired manner into the trolley and so when faced…
Corned Beef Hash with Extra Veg, and a Happy New Year!
I had originally nearly finished writing this post, then I stupidly tried to change photo format and lost the whole blog post!! Now I didn’t make any resolutions but instead…
New Dishes and Kitchen Bits
No new recipes from me this week, cooking is still a bit hit and miss! I’ve been cooking a few new dishes but mostly old comforting favourites like Corned Beef…
Midweek thoughts on healthy eating..
So back in January, contrary to what gets banded about the news I decided on postponing making any resolutions! After all its a long, slightly dreary, dark and very cold…
Getting back in the groove..
This year has been a real struggle to get back into blogging, to the point of often feeling like giving up- not something I have lightly considered as last week…
Cheesy Gammon and Potato Bake
I’ve got history. With graters that is… This picture happened recently. Its like a crime scene, you can still see traces of the cheese I was attempting to grate. Oh…
Pulled Pork with FODMAP Ginger Barbecue Sauce
Since my last posting, about starting a FODMAP diet in order to try and figure out some of my ongoing digestive ‘issues’, it sent me into a bit of well,…
Banana, Sultana and Choc Chip Muffins #FODMAP
Yesterday I was very lucky to spend it attending a full day workshop on Quality Improvement for healthcare, which working for the NHS as part of a project to improve…
Curried Corned Beef Hash – Low #FODMAP
As part of my dabbling with the #FODMAP diet, adapting my current repertoire of recipes is proving to be a thorough mixture of highs and lows, or as the famous…
Bacon, Halloumi and Baby Roast Potato Salad
Ah, at long last. My food mojo is back. The mojo where I dream up random combinations and they make it into reality. I kind of dreamt this one up…
Chocolate and Almond Brownies – Gluten free and low #FODMAP
For these brownies they are definitely both gluten and wheat free, the FODMAP part is on the border – I did check them out with my dietitian as under FODMAP…
Monday Meal Plan
Ahh I feel like such a bad blogger! Honestly I still cook but trying to cook + blog my FODMAP diet and all the fun that entailed + life in…
Coconut Loaf Cake
A friend often travels to Sri Lanka, and he recently brought me a huge bag of coconut. Lovely stuff! In return, I decided to bake him a cake, with that…
Saffron chicken in crock-pot
I bought myself a cookbook (or five) for christmas. This one is called “I didn’t know my slow-cooker could do that” and it’s full of weird recipes that you might…
Thai-style pork in crock-pot and sriracha cole slaw
Seriously so easy and tasty. I got the idea from my new lovely book – I didn’t know my slowcooked could do that – and decided to make it the…
No excuses…only explanations.
Ok, so I must be coming to the end of the year I gave myself to complete this challenge and am nowhere near finishing. It hasn’t been the cooking that’s…